The Pessoa Prize (, ), named after

Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (; ; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th c ...

, is recognized as the most important

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in the area of

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. Created in 1987 by the newspaper ''Expresso'' and the IT company

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, since 2008 the prize has been sponsored by

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. It is granted annually to the Portuguese person who during this period, and in the course of previous activity, has distinguished him or herself as a figure in scientific, artistic, or literary life.

List of prize winners

* 1987 – José Mattoso, historian * 1988 – , poet * 1989 – Maria João Pires, pianist * 1990 – Menez, painter * 1991 – , archaeologist * 1992 – António Damásio and Hanna Damásio, neurophysiologists * 1993 – , philosopher and poet * 1994 – Herberto Helder, poet – refused the award * 1995 – Vasco Graça Moura, essayist * 1996 – João Lobo Antunes, neurosurgeon * 1997 –

José Cardoso Pires José Cardoso (2October 192526October 1998) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese author of short stories, novels, plays, and political satire. Life and career Early life Pires was born in the Portuguese village of São João do Peso, which is ...

, writer * 1998 –

Eduardo Souto de Moura Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura (; born 25 July 1952), better known as Eduardo Souto de Moura, is a Portuguese architect who was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011 and the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2013. Along with Fe ...

, architect * 1999 –

Manuel Alegre Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte (born 12 May 1936) is a Portuguese poet and politician. He was a candidate to the presidency of the Portuguese Republic in 2006 and 2011, finishing in second place in both elections. For his literary work, he was awa ...

, poet, and José Manuel Rodrigues, photographer * 2000 –

Emmanuel Nunes Emmanuel Nunes (31 August 1941 – 2 September 2012) was a Portuguese composer who lived and worked in Paris from 1964. Biography Nunes was born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Mús ...

, composer * 2001 – , president of the Cinemateca Portuguesa—Museu do Cinema, and a film historian * 2002 – , scientist (medicine) * 2003 – , constitutionalist * 2004 – , writer * 2005 – Luís Miguel Cintra, actor and set designer * 2006 – António Câmara, professor and founder of the YDreams IT firm * 2007 – Irene Flunser Pimentel, historian * 2008 – Carrilho da Graça, architect * 2009 –

Manuel Clemente Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente, GCC (; born 16 July 1948), officially Manuel III, is a Portuguese prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the Metropolitan Patriarch of Lisbon from 2013 to 2023 and a cardinal since 14 February 201 ...

, Catholic Church prelate * 2010 – Maria do Carmo Fonseca, scientist and Professor of the School of Medicine of Santa Maria * 2011 – Eduardo Lourenço, essayist * 2012 – Richard Zenith, writer and translator * 2013 – Maria Manuel Mota, scientist (biomedicine) * 2014 – , Physicist, Professor and researcher in the field of History of Sciences * 2015 – , sculptor * 2016 – , writer and translator * 2017 – , architect * 2018 – , scientist (biogeographer) * 2019 – Tiago Rodrigues, theatre director * 2020 – Elvira Fortunato, scientist (engineering) * 2021 - Tiago Pitta e Cunha, jurist specialized in ocean issues * 2022 – , poet and plastic surgeon

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List of prize winners

See also

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